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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harsunen, M H
• Puff, R
• D'Orlando, O
• Giannopoulou, E
• Lachmann, L
• Beyerlein, A
• von Meyer, A
• Ziegler, A-G

Titel

Reduced blood leukocyte and neutrophil numbers in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes

Ist Teil von

• Hormone and metabolic research, 2013-06, Vol.45 (6), p.467-470

Ort / Verlag

Germany

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Very little is known about the role of the innate immune system in the course of human type 1 diabetes. Here we investigated neutrophil numbers along with other leukocyte populations in patients at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and during prediabetes. Complete and differential blood counts were analyzed from 107 adult patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, 21 children with persistent islet autoantibodies and a family history of type 1 diabetes, and 1 238 age and gender matched control subjects, all individuals without any signs of acute infection.Adult patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes had significantly lower total WBC (p<1×10⁻⁶), neutrophil (p<1×10⁻⁶), basophil (p<1×10⁻⁶), monocyte (p=4×10⁻⁶) and lymphocyte (p<1×10⁻⁶) counts compared to control subjects. Erythrocyte, eosinophil and platelet counts did not differ between groups. Similarly, children with persistent islet autoantibodies had decreased WBC (p=0.001), neutrophils (p=0.003), and lymphocytes (p=0.006) in comparison to control children. Our findings demonstrate a perturbation of leukocyte homeostasis at and prior to onset of type 1 diabetes suggesting a general involvement of the innate immune system in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes.